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emacs - Is a popular text editor, usually characterized by it's extensibility. Often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor."
Now part of the GNU project, it was originally developed by Richard Stallman in the mid 1970s and development, and ongoing ...

Up until yesterday, clicking a link in emacs would open the corresponding page in my browser (Firefox). Sometime yesterday this changed to always open a new window in the browser, on the home page. ...

Applications that allow opening links (e.g. emacs), always fail to open URLs for me. Instead of immediately opening the URL in a running browser window, they open the firefox profile manager dialog. ...

In Precise, when I clicked on "Shut Down" from the gear menu, it would shut things down in an orderly manner. E.g. it would tell processes to shut down, and would let me know if e.g. emacs was still ...

I am having an issue with GNU Emacs 24.3.1. I usually only use emacs for the purpose of compiling .pdf or LaTeX documents. And I am unable to open the program correctly via terminal use. I initially ...

I recently installed PyCharm, Emacs, and Vim in order to start programming. However, I noticed that my A, N, SHIFT, and ENTER keys on my keyboard seem to not always work when I press them. There was ...

I am running emacs23 on kubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr). Sometimes (once every two weeks or so) the standard key mapping in emacs just fails.
The control key doesn't work any more, and I get e.g. "xs" in ...

I want to write shell scripts by using Emacs. I have already known to turn shell-script-mode on, but still don't know which short keys to make a line become comment. For example, which short keys in ...

I am having problems getting Ibus-m17n to work with emacs 23.4.1. I have two input methods, the English (UK) supplied with Ibus and a custom method for inputting transliterated roman characters using ...

I'm just playing around with Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. I installed emacs, and wanted to double check if it was.
~ 1496 $ dpkg --status emacs
dpkg-query: package 'emacs' is not installed and no information ...

After upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 I can no longer install or update
any packages due to broken Emacs packages. I have tried the suggestions
on this list including dpkg --purge, apt-get -f install, etc. ...

Hello I am trying to rebind the Emacs key for isearch (C-s) to the more CUA like C-i becuase C-s is bound to save. I did the following:
(global-set-key "\C-i" 'isearch-forward)
(global-set-key (kbd ...

I have been using emacs for years, but am by no means an expert. When I got my new verion of Ubuntu I got the latest version of emacs (24), but hated it, so dropped back to emacs23. It is like what ...

In Emacs I activated the option to use CUA keys for copy/cut-pasting with C-c/C-x/C-v. However sometimes it creates a problem when using Latex/Auctex key shortcuts, because it "eats" the first C-c or ...

Emacs alt-v stopped working, but alt-b works well. I could not figure out the reason. Can anybody give me some hint?
Ubuntu 14.04
Gnome-shell desktop
Kde does not work too.
Emacs 24.3, 24.4
Edit: I ...

I'm using Cinnamon in ubuntu 14.04. The bar at the bottom of the screen is unfortunately cutting off the bottom of full-screened windows, i.e., instead of ending at the top of the bar, the window ends ...

I am a Emacs user and I want to have Long-press enter as an extra control key. I used to do this in Mac OS with KeyboardRemap4Macbook. But was not able to find it how to do in Ubuntu Unity. This would ...

I am using framemove.el and have the default setup. holding the meta key and pressing left or right arrow will switch from one frame to another. It works when the frames are not full screen, but when ...

Platform: Ubuntu 14.04, Emacs 24.3.1, Ibus 1.5.5, Fcitx 4.2.8.3-3
I tried to edit Chinese files with Emacs. Though Emacs embeds its own Chinese input method, but it is not smart enough.
At first, I ...

I can't seem to install or uninstall anything after updating to 14.04 because emacs and LaTeX was broken. I think I removed all the corrupt LaTeX files, but the emacs ones won't go away. Anyone know ...

When I use emacs, I want to be able to use C-q (quoted-insert).
However when I do that in Unity, the program quits since C-q is the system-wide shortcut I set for closing a window.
I want to keep C-q ...

I just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 (clean upgrade, not in-place).
I found that I couldn't call pylint from within emacs (M-x pylint) as I used to, so I installed the package python-mode.
Now ...

I'm trying to switch ctrl and caps for emacs but it seems to be that this command only puts the caps option on ctrl and not vice versa i.e. the caps key does nothing at all afterwards. My method of ...